#library

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. ↗

— Walter Wager

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A library is thought in cold storage. ↗

— Herbert Samuel

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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals. ↗

— Gene Simmons

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If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library. ↗

— Peter Singer

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Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. ↗

— Peter Singer

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We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories. ↗

— John Sladek

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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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